I have never had a gaming computer before and i'm pretty much a newbie to computer hardware so I need help. I have an ASUS laptop with an intel i5 quad core processor, 4gb of ram, and intel 4000 graphics(which I heard is pretty much the worst graphics option for gaming you can get), and all I play on it is minecraft mostly(bc I don't have the specs to run games) and sometimes garrys mod. I recently bought skyrim on steam and if I run it on low graphics settings it works ok. This is my first computer and its ok, but its a laptop so I can't customize it whatsoever and put better parts in so… I want a gaming computer. So first of all, should I buy one, and change out parts eventually as I get more money? Or build my own from scratch?
If you think I should build one, I would want something like:
8gb of ram
atleast 500gb of memory, but maby 1tb
an intel i5 processor
I don't know anything about motherboards so whatever you think
As for graphics cards, Geforce gtx 740-760 whatever fits the price range
My budget- the highest I can go is probably $500 but maybe more.
Btw I want it to run games that the xbox one can run at medium to good performance. I atleast want to be able to run xbox 360 games if xbox one level games are out of the $500 price range